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What I can't understand is why we still have controls overlaying the video. It does make sense in fullscreen (there's no other place to put them). But in any o
by dmitriid 4y ago
What I can't understand is why we still have controls overlaying the video.
It does make sense in fullscreen (there's no other place to put them). But in any other context? Have them below the video, damnit. You don't even need to hide them then.
- TonyTrapp 4y agoFully agree. There have been so many issues with overlaid controls and none of them have been fixed. For example, ever since YouTube introduced them, it's very difficult to impossible to read small text at the bottom of videos. If you want to pause the video to be able to read the text, the controls will stay there forever, obfuscating the text. So the other option would be to keep the video playing and keep skipping back a few seconds until you have read the text, except... skipping back brings up the controls, so it's the same problem all over again.
- pmichaud 4y agoI think the reason, other than easier implementation, is there is a rule/heuristic that you shouldn't move controls around. So having the controls work one way in full screen and a slightly different way outside of the fullscreen would violate the rule. I think I agree with you though, this is probably a scenario that benefits from breaking the heuristic.